WORKSHOP


The Beltane Week Intensive
April 25 - May 2 2008
In the heart of the beautiful Somerset countryside very near Glastonbury (The Mystical Centre of Britain). In breath taking valley nestling between two sacred hills.
Delicious vegetarian food

Wonderful and magical and utterly life changing

Each of Jill's week intensives is different. We will learn and develop the ancient shamanic practice of overtone chanting, vocal purification practices, transformative breathing, vocal yogas, sonorous meditations, sacred chants, mantras, and sonic practices to transform family curses into their corresponding blessings and heal the ancestral lines. Later we will be working with, and becoming the mandala, or structure of consciousness of the supreme alchemical balance of male and female - the union of these two is the ultimate spiritual path, sought after in different ways within all traditions. Jill will work with the Healing Mandala of White Tara.

The HEALING MANDALA OF WHITE TARA
All Jill's mandala ceremonies are different from each other. All combine and contain continuous chant, profound spiritual practice with joyful deep and transformative psychological work. As we move through the mandala we will be doing the practices of Green and White Tara. All Tibetan Buddhists from the most sophisticated to the simplest, including the Dalai Lama, the Karmapa, maintain their deep connection with this feminine manifestaton of compassion, enlightened action, liberation, healing and long life. Through working with the energies of Tara we are able to ease the blockages to achievements in work, life and health, bring about order and flow in our lives and work towards achieving the essential state of reality and become enlightened. The April-May 2008 retreat is held over the festival of Beltane or May Day, a festival of fecundity when the forces of heaven penetrate the earth (represented in traditional England by the Maypole). We will celebrate and harness these forces using sound as the bridge between the worlds to connect to the source of power through the instrument of our own voice and purify the body, the elements and past karma. In Tibetan Buddhism, the ultimate liberation is to transform the elements of the body into the essence of their substance - the rainbow colours and ultimately achieve the rainbow body.

Jill only does two week-long retreats a year - always different and people come to them from all over the world so do book soon.

It is essential to book early for these week intensives, as Jill is only giving two per year they are in great demand. *The five day option is occasionally offered to those who have done a weekend workshop with Jill before, but as the new group constellates in the first two days, Jill strongly recommends that you do the full week.

It is essential to book early for these week intensives, as Jill is only giving two per year they are in great demand.
*The five day option is occasionally offered to those who have done a weekend workshop with Jill before, but as the new group constellates in the first two days, Jill strongly recommends that you do the full week.

Non Residential Week Intensive

November 1 - November 7 2008

LONDON : Venue:

Belsize Park, (Tube station on the

Northern line, Edgware branch).

Details provided on registration

£535 (non-residential)
It is essential to book early for this

LONDON ( Belsize Park) 10am - 6.30 pm (later on Thursday)

Some of the activities of the week:-

The ancient Mongolian shamanic overtone chanting- an ethereal, magical and powerfully meditative vocal practice

Vocal Purification practices

transformative breathing practices

Mantra

Sacred chants

Vocal yogas

Dream work

Healing our ancestral lines – to clear negative family and ancestral patterns and acknowledge and own their blessings. This powerful work will be done precisely at the traditional and most powerful time for working with the Ancestors -Samhain. At the Festival of the Dead or All Souls. We go back through our families and by means of the voice we exorcise family curses, unacknowledged deaths, redundant themes and patterns, and other ancient hurts. At the same time we uncover the particular blessings, the gifts which we receive from our ancestors. Often we find what the Native Americans call "your medicine", the gift which we are to the world and how this relates to the essence of our family patterns.

A ceremony working within the mandala –( the geometry of consciousness) - with the group as the living mandala, through which the group travels as a pilgrimage. November 2008 we will be working with the mandala of the male Buddhas and the female Buddhas, (the Mothers or The Mothers manifest the wisdoms of the directions and the elements - through energy, and space.

The work the group will be doing as we progress through the mandala is extraordinarily powerful- based on an ancient Tibetan practice called the Chöd . Chöd means to cut or sever, and this ceremony is designed cut all our clingings to the ego , cut our fears, remove all obstructions - all that holds us back from fully engaging in life as luminous beings - all that holds us back from full realization. This practice is also done as a powerful healing practice and contains aspects of both the phowa, or the essential practice for directing the consciousness at the moment of death, and also the rainbow body, the transformation of our material body into light.

Each of the week intensives Jill gives is different. This is an international workshop - people come from all over the world . As this only happens once a year and is wonderful, magical and utterly life changing, this week is in huge demand so you need to book very soon to be sure of securing a place.

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